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"The comedy in ALFIE is plentiful but bittersweet....What gives it its kick is how Alfie takes the film audience into his confidence..."New York Times "ALFIE, which stars an adorably tousled, twinkly eyed Jude Law as a British limo driver in Manhattan, is a bright gumball skittering across a marble floor."Los Angeles Times "Law's charm is as bountiful as Caine's, so there's no question that director/co-adapter Charles Shyer has chosen the right Alfie for a remake."USA Today "[Law] pulls it off superbly." Sight and Sound "[I]t's often brisk and witty." Uncut25.37644

"The comedy in ALFIE is plentiful but bittersweet....What gives it its kick is how Alfie takes the film audience into his confidence..."New York Times "ALFIE, which stars an adorably tousled, twinkly eyed Jude Law as a British limo driver in Manhattan, is a bright gumball skittering across a marble floor."Los Angeles Times "Law's charm is as bountiful as Caine's, so there's no question that director/co-adapter Charles Shyer has chosen the right Alfie for a remake."USA Today "[Law] pulls it off superbly." Sight and Sound "[I]t's often brisk and witty." Uncut25.37644

"[Law] pulls it off superbly."Sight and Sound "Law's charm is as bountiful as Caine's, so there's no question that director/co-adapter Charles Shyer has chosen the right Alfie for a remake."USA Today "[I]t's often brisk and witty."Uncut "The comedy in ALFIE is plentiful but bittersweet....What gives it its kick is how Alfie takes the film audience into his confidence..."New York Times "ALFIE, which stars an adorably tousled, twinkly eyed Jude Law as a British limo driver in Manhattan, is a bright gumball skittering across a marble floor."Los Angeles Times25.37644

"...This is one stunner of a movie....Jude Law gives a breakthrough star performance....Kidman lights up the screen..."Rolling Stone "...[An] awesome gathering of talent..." Movieline's Hollywood Life "[A] lavish evocation of simplicity that, for all its showy sophistication, has an appealing emotional directness."New York Times "Anthony Minghella's episodic epic of Charles Frazier's acclaimed best seller is the equal of any Civil War movie ever made....The actors deliver all around."USA Today "It's a literate, lyrical screen adaptation." Rolling Stone "COLD MOUNTAIN is a studiously carpentered film, with an Odyssey-through-the-backwoods vastness that is very pleasing..."Entertainment Weekly "[T]he battle scenes and the Civil War landscapes have beauty and majesty."Chicago Sun-Times25.31503

"Anthony Minghella's episodic epic of Charles Frazier's acclaimed best seller is the equal of any Civil War movie ever made....The actors deliver all around."USA Today "It's a literate, lyrical screen adaptation."Rolling Stone "...This is one stunner of a movie....Jude Law gives a breakthrough star performance....Kidman lights up the screen..."Rolling Stone "...[An] awesome gathering of talent..."Movieline's Hollywood Life "[A] lavish evocation of simplicity that, for all its showy sophistication, has an appealing emotional directness."New York Times "[T]he battle scenes and the Civil War landscapes have beauty and majesty."Chicago Sun-Times "COLD MOUNTAIN is a studiously carpentered film, with an Odyssey-through-the-backwoods vastness that is very pleasing..."Entertainment Weekly25.31503

"Anthony Minghella's episodic epic of Charles Frazier's acclaimed best seller is the equal of any Civil War movie ever made....The actors deliver all around."USA Today "It's a literate, lyrical screen adaptation."Rolling Stone "...This is one stunner of a movie....Jude Law gives a breakthrough star performance....Kidman lights up the screen..."Rolling Stone "...[An] awesome gathering of talent..."Movieline's Hollywood Life "[A] lavish evocation of simplicity that, for all its showy sophistication, has an appealing emotional directness."New York Times "COLD MOUNTAIN is a studiously carpentered film, with an Odyssey-through-the-backwoods vastness that is very pleasing..."Entertainment Weekly "[T]he battle scenes and the Civil War landscapes have beauty and majesty."Chicago Sun-Times25.31503

"Anthony Minghella's episodic epic of Charles Frazier's acclaimed best seller is the equal of any Civil War movie ever made....The actors deliver all around."USA Today "It's a literate, lyrical screen adaptation."Rolling Stone "...This is one stunner of a movie....Jude Law gives a breakthrough star performance....Kidman lights up the screen..."Rolling Stone "...[An] awesome gathering of talent..."Movieline's Hollywood Life "[A] lavish evocation of simplicity that, for all its showy sophistication, has an appealing emotional directness."New York Times "[T]he battle scenes and the Civil War landscapes have beauty and majesty."Chicago Sun-Times "COLD MOUNTAIN is a studiously carpentered film, with an Odyssey-through-the-backwoods vastness that is very pleasing..."Entertainment Weekly25.31503

"Anthony Minghella's episodic epic of Charles Frazier's acclaimed best seller is the equal of any Civil War movie ever made....The actors deliver all around."USA Today "It's a literate, lyrical screen adaptation."Rolling Stone "...This is one stunner of a movie....Jude Law gives a breakthrough star performance....Kidman lights up the screen..."Rolling Stone "...[An] awesome gathering of talent..."Movieline's Hollywood Life "[A] lavish evocation of simplicity that, for all its showy sophistication, has an appealing emotional directness."New York Times "[T]he battle scenes and the Civil War landscapes have beauty and majesty."Chicago Sun-Times "COLD MOUNTAIN is a studiously carpentered film, with an Odyssey-through-the-backwoods vastness that is very pleasing..."Entertainment Weekly25.31503

4 stars out of 5 -- "This is Steven Soderbergh at his best delivering a gripping, chilling and powerful movie experience that will have audiences talking (and freaking out)."Box Office "As with TRAFFIC, the director expertly choreographs an impressive cast that includes major players....A film that makes the spread of a global pandemic seem more than plausible..."Los Angeles Times "Director Steven Soderbergh effectively conveys the capriciousness of disease as it seeps into all corners of the global village....Potent and well-paced..."USA Today 3 stars out of 4 -- "[A] realistic, unsensational film about a global epidemic....Soderbergh is skillful at telling the story through the lives of several key characters and the casual interactions of many others."Chicago Sun-Times "The movie spreads its compelling, insidious plot backward and forward, mimicking scientific research..." -- Grade: B+Entertainment Weekly 3 stars out of 5 -- "[A] chilling, convincing thriller about a world-ravaging pandemic....Bleakly compelling."Total Film 3 stars out of 5 -- "In CONTAGION, Steven Soderbergh applies his intelligent, steely touch to the medical disaster movie."Uncut25.0295

4 stars out of 5 -- "This is Steven Soderbergh at his best delivering a gripping, chilling and powerful movie experience that will have audiences talking (and freaking out)."Box Office "As with TRAFFIC, the director expertly choreographs an impressive cast that includes major players....A film that makes the spread of a global pandemic seem more than plausible..."Los Angeles Times "Director Steven Soderbergh effectively conveys the capriciousness of disease as it seeps into all corners of the global village....Potent and well-paced..."USA Today 3 stars out of 4 -- "[A] realistic, unsensational film about a global epidemic....Soderbergh is skillful at telling the story through the lives of several key characters and the casual interactions of many others."Chicago Sun-Times "The movie spreads its compelling, insidious plot backward and forward, mimicking scientific research..." -- Grade: B+Entertainment Weekly 3 stars out of 5 -- "[A] chilling, convincing thriller about a world-ravaging pandemic....Bleakly compelling."Total Film 3 stars out of 5 -- "In CONTAGION, Steven Soderbergh applies his intelligent, steely touch to the medical disaster movie."Uncut25.0295

4 stars out of 5 -- "This is Steven Soderbergh at his best delivering a gripping, chilling and powerful movie experience that will have audiences talking (and freaking out)."Box Office "As with TRAFFIC, the director expertly choreographs an impressive cast that includes major players....A film that makes the spread of a global pandemic seem more than plausible..."Los Angeles Times "Director Steven Soderbergh effectively conveys the capriciousness of disease as it seeps into all corners of the global village....Potent and well-paced..."USA Today 3 stars out of 4 -- "[A] realistic, unsensational film about a global epidemic....Soderbergh is skillful at telling the story through the lives of several key characters and the casual interactions of many others."Chicago Sun-Times "The movie spreads its compelling, insidious plot backward and forward, mimicking scientific research..." -- Grade: B+Entertainment Weekly 3 stars out of 5 -- "[A] chilling, convincing thriller about a world-ravaging pandemic....Bleakly compelling."Total Film 3 stars out of 5 -- "In CONTAGION, Steven Soderbergh applies his intelligent, steely touch to the medical disaster movie."Uncut25.0295

4 stars out of 5 -- "This is Steven Soderbergh at his best delivering a gripping, chilling and powerful movie experience that will have audiences talking (and freaking out)."Box Office "As with TRAFFIC, the director expertly choreographs an impressive cast that includes major players....A film that makes the spread of a global pandemic seem more than plausible..."Los Angeles Times "Director Steven Soderbergh effectively conveys the capriciousness of disease as it seeps into all corners of the global village....Potent and well-paced..."USA Today 3 stars out of 4 -- "[A] realistic, unsensational film about a global epidemic....Soderbergh is skillful at telling the story through the lives of several key characters and the casual interactions of many others."Chicago Sun-Times "The movie spreads its compelling, insidious plot backward and forward, mimicking scientific research..." -- Grade: B+Entertainment Weekly 3 stars out of 5 -- "[A] chilling, convincing thriller about a world-ravaging pandemic....Bleakly compelling."Total Film 3 stars out of 5 -- "In CONTAGION, Steven Soderbergh applies his intelligent, steely touch to the medical disaster movie."Uncut25.0295

"It's a testament to the strength of the performances and of Wright's staging that the film retains its emotional urgency."Sight and Sound 3.5 stars out of 4 -- "[T]hanks to director Joe Wright, ANNA KARENINA lifts off into the wild blue of the imagination..."Rolling Stone "It is risky and ambitious enough to count as an act of artistic hubris, and confident enough to triumph on its own slightly -- wonderfully -- crazy terms."New York Times "From a filmmaking perspective, it's a gorgeous shadowbox of a production, filmed largely in a single location..."Movieline 4.5 stars out of 5 -- "[A] masterpiece of moving pieces, a dizzying and obscenely beautiful film that boils down Tolstoy's text to its most basic elements by making literal the theater of high society."Box Office "[An] ingenious, intoxicating adaptation of Leo Tolstoys novel, in which the authors dense tale of love, adultery, politics and aristocratic manners has been brilliantly re-imagined as light opera."Washington Post "[A] new adaptation that streamlines the backpack-breaking novel, and most audaciously, stages its action as a stage production that doesnt attempt to hide its own theatricality."A.V. Club "[Stoppard] supplies an excellently clean, delicately balanced script."Entertainment Weekly24.97177

3.5 stars out of 4 -- "It's Downey's movie. With his cool, flippant manner, his Holmes stands apart from the danger, thinking it through visually before performing it, remaining insouciant in the face of calamity."Chicago Sun-Times "Law's down-to-earth and slightly fussy Watson proves once again to be the right counterweight to Downey's flighty, fidgety, flinty Holmes....Downey has made this sly sardonic Sherlock stylistically all his own."Los Angeles Times "The play between wild-eyed Downey and the serenely unsettling Harris crackles with a chemistry befitting Doyles iconic literary nemeses as Moriarty stays coolly one step ahead of our hero..."Movieline "Director Guy Ritchie loves whooshy, rapid-fire speed shifts, and uses them for hypnotic sequences..."Entertainment Weekly 4 stars out of 5 -- "HOLMES 2 is an improvement on its predecessor....In the action department, it scores a bullseye..."Total Film "Ritchie comes up with breathtaking moments....A GAME OF SHADOWS is lively and diverting..."Sight and Sound24.9429

3.5 stars out of 4 -- "It's Downey's movie. With his cool, flippant manner, his Holmes stands apart from the danger, thinking it through visually before performing it, remaining insouciant in the face of calamity."Chicago Sun-Times "Law's down-to-earth and slightly fussy Watson proves once again to be the right counterweight to Downey's flighty, fidgety, flinty Holmes....Downey has made this sly sardonic Sherlock stylistically all his own."Los Angeles Times "The play between wild-eyed Downey and the serenely unsettling Harris crackles with a chemistry befitting Doyles iconic literary nemeses as Moriarty stays coolly one step ahead of our hero..."Movieline "Director Guy Ritchie loves whooshy, rapid-fire speed shifts, and uses them for hypnotic sequences..."Entertainment Weekly 4 stars out of 5 -- "HOLMES 2 is an improvement on its predecessor....In the action department, it scores a bullseye..."Total Film "Ritchie comes up with breathtaking moments....A GAME OF SHADOWS is lively and diverting..."Sight and Sound24.9429

3.5 stars out of 4 -- "It's Downey's movie. With his cool, flippant manner, his Holmes stands apart from the danger, thinking it through visually before performing it, remaining insouciant in the face of calamity."Chicago Sun-Times "Law's down-to-earth and slightly fussy Watson proves once again to be the right counterweight to Downey's flighty, fidgety, flinty Holmes....Downey has made this sly sardonic Sherlock stylistically all his own."Los Angeles Times "The play between wild-eyed Downey and the serenely unsettling Harris crackles with a chemistry befitting Doyles iconic literary nemeses as Moriarty stays coolly one step ahead of our hero..."Movieline "Director Guy Ritchie loves whooshy, rapid-fire speed shifts, and uses them for hypnotic sequences..."Entertainment Weekly 4 stars out of 5 -- "HOLMES 2 is an improvement on its predecessor....In the action department, it scores a bullseye..."Total Film "Ritchie comes up with breathtaking moments....A GAME OF SHADOWS is lively and diverting..."Sight and Sound24.9429

"[A] high-flying, retro-cool adventure extravaganza..." Movieline's Hollywood Life "SKY CAPTAIN charms as well as impresses....A landmark in computer-generated imagery..."New York Times "[The] visuals definitely have the capacity to surprise."Los Angeles Times "[T]he confection is irresistible: three of Hollywood's most polished stars, assuming the contours of 2-D characters without irony or condescension." Entertainment Weekly "It's like a film that escaped from the imagination directly onto the screen, without having to pass through reality along the way."Chicago Sun-Times "[A] beautifully realised slice of classic pulp adventure." Uncut "There are nice visual touches..." Sight and Sound24.91404

"[A] high-flying, retro-cool adventure extravaganza..."Movieline's Hollywood Life "[The] visuals definitely have the capacity to surprise."Los Angeles Times "[T]he confection is irresistible: three of Hollywood's most polished stars, assuming the contours of 2-D characters without irony or condescension."Entertainment Weekly "SKY CAPTAIN charms as well as impresses....A landmark in computer-generated imagery..."New York Times "It's like a film that escaped from the imagination directly onto the screen, without having to pass through reality along the way."Chicago Sun-Times "[A] beautifully realised slice of classic pulp adventure."Uncut "There are nice visual touches..."Sight and Sound24.91404

"[A] high-flying, retro-cool adventure extravaganza..."Movieline's Hollywood Life "[The] visuals definitely have the capacity to surprise."Los Angeles Times "[T]he confection is irresistible: three of Hollywood's most polished stars, assuming the contours of 2-D characters without irony or condescension."Entertainment Weekly "SKY CAPTAIN charms as well as impresses....A landmark in computer-generated imagery..."New York Times "It's like a film that escaped from the imagination directly onto the screen, without having to pass through reality along the way."Chicago Sun-Times "[A] beautifully realised slice of classic pulp adventure."Uncut "There are nice visual touches..."Sight and Sound24.91404

"[A] lavishly dread-fueled suspense movie full of twists, reversals, double crosses, and dangerous liaisons." -- Grade: B+Entertainment Weekly "Maras moodiness has an allure....She remains intriguing to watch at all times."Hollywood Reporter "[A] sly thriller...Expertly crafted and cleverly compounded for high-dose entertainment."Wall Street Journal "Rooney Mara's performance is instrumental....In SIDE EFFECTS, the viewer is being drawn into a vortex."Chicago Sun-Times "It's a gripping thriller...and a chilling indictment of the nation's pharmaceutical industry."USA Today "It's got a deliciously complex plot....It unfolds with enough panache to make turning away out of the question."Los Angeles Times "[I]t is a thrill ride for grown-ups, suspenseful, whip-smart and crammed with surprises."Empire 3.5 stars out of 4 -- "SIDE EFFECTS is Soderbergh in full, flinty vigor....Soderbergh delivers ticking-bomb suspense laced with psychological acuity..."Rolling Stone "[I]ts more about high-level gamesmanship and duplicity, with the drug issue itself relegated to a side effect....Rooney Mara is superb as the glue that binds this fractured psychological puzzle." -- Grade: B+A.V. Club "Mr. Soderbergh handles it brilliantly, serving notice once again that he is a crackerjack genre technician."New York Times24.91404

"[A] lavishly dread-fueled suspense movie full of twists, reversals, double crosses, and dangerous liaisons." -- Grade: B+Entertainment Weekly "Maras moodiness has an allure....She remains intriguing to watch at all times."Hollywood Reporter "[A] sly thriller...Expertly crafted and cleverly compounded for high-dose entertainment."Wall Street Journal "Rooney Mara's performance is instrumental....In SIDE EFFECTS, the viewer is being drawn into a vortex."Chicago Sun-Times "It's a gripping thriller...and a chilling indictment of the nation's pharmaceutical industry."USA Today "It's got a deliciously complex plot....It unfolds with enough panache to make turning away out of the question."Los Angeles Times "[I]t is a thrill ride for grown-ups, suspenseful, whip-smart and crammed with surprises."Empire 3.5 stars out of 4 -- "SIDE EFFECTS is Soderbergh in full, flinty vigor....Soderbergh delivers ticking-bomb suspense laced with psychological acuity..."Rolling Stone "[I]ts more about high-level gamesmanship and duplicity, with the drug issue itself relegated to a side effect....Rooney Mara is superb as the glue that binds this fractured psychological puzzle." -- Grade: B+A.V. Club "Mr. Soderbergh handles it brilliantly, serving notice once again that he is a crackerjack genre technician."New York Times24.91404

"Maras moodiness has an allure....She remains intriguing to watch at all times."Hollywood Reporter "Rooney Mara's performance is instrumental....In SIDE EFFECTS, the viewer is being drawn into a vortex."Chicago Sun-Times "[A] lavishly dread-fueled suspense movie full of twists, reversals, double crosses, and dangerous liaisons." -- Grade: B+Entertainment Weekly 3.5 stars out of 4 -- "SIDE EFFECTS is Soderbergh in full, flinty vigor....Soderbergh delivers ticking-bomb suspense laced with psychological acuity..."Rolling Stone "[A] sly thriller...Expertly crafted and cleverly compounded for high-dose entertainment."Wall Street Journal "It's got a deliciously complex plot....It unfolds with enough panache to make turning away out of the question."Los Angeles Times "It's a gripping thriller...and a chilling indictment of the nation's pharmaceutical industry."USA Today "[I]ts more about high-level gamesmanship and duplicity, with the drug issue itself relegated to a side effect....Rooney Mara is superb as the glue that binds this fractured psychological puzzle." -- Grade: B+A.V. Club "Mr. Soderbergh handles it brilliantly, serving notice once again that he is a crackerjack genre technician."New York Times "[I]t is a thrill ride for grown-ups, suspenseful, whip-smart and crammed with surprises."Empire 4 stars out of 5 -- "Soderbergh's cool self-lensing brings an aptly clinical sheen to his fiendishly ingenious tale..."Total Film24.91404

"Maras moodiness has an allure....She remains intriguing to watch at all times."Hollywood Reporter "Rooney Mara's performance is instrumental....In SIDE EFFECTS, the viewer is being drawn into a vortex."Chicago Sun-Times "[A] lavishly dread-fueled suspense movie full of twists, reversals, double crosses, and dangerous liaisons." -- Grade: B+Entertainment Weekly 3.5 stars out of 4 -- "SIDE EFFECTS is Soderbergh in full, flinty vigor....Soderbergh delivers ticking-bomb suspense laced with psychological acuity..."Rolling Stone "[A] sly thriller...Expertly crafted and cleverly compounded for high-dose entertainment."Wall Street Journal "It's got a deliciously complex plot....It unfolds with enough panache to make turning away out of the question."Los Angeles Times "It's a gripping thriller...and a chilling indictment of the nation's pharmaceutical industry."USA Today "[I]ts more about high-level gamesmanship and duplicity, with the drug issue itself relegated to a side effect....Rooney Mara is superb as the glue that binds this fractured psychological puzzle." -- Grade: B+A.V. Club "Mr. Soderbergh handles it brilliantly, serving notice once again that he is a crackerjack genre technician."New York Times "[I]t is a thrill ride for grown-ups, suspenseful, whip-smart and crammed with surprises."Empire 4 stars out of 5 -- "Soderbergh's cool self-lensing brings an aptly clinical sheen to his fiendishly ingenious tale..."Total Film24.91404

"Rooney Mara's performance is instrumental....In SIDE EFFECTS, the viewer is being drawn into a vortex."Chicago Sun-Times "Maras moodiness has an allure....She remains intriguing to watch at all times."Hollywood Reporter 3.5 stars out of 4 -- "SIDE EFFECTS is Soderbergh in full, flinty vigor....Soderbergh delivers ticking-bomb suspense laced with psychological acuity..."Rolling Stone "[A] lavishly dread-fueled suspense movie full of twists, reversals, double crosses, and dangerous liaisons." -- Grade: B+Entertainment Weekly "[A] sly thriller...Expertly crafted and cleverly compounded for high-dose entertainment."Wall Street Journal "It's a gripping thriller...and a chilling indictment of the nation's pharmaceutical industry."USA Today "It's got a deliciously complex plot....It unfolds with enough panache to make turning away out of the question."Los Angeles Times "[I]ts more about high-level gamesmanship and duplicity, with the drug issue itself relegated to a side effect....Rooney Mara is superb as the glue that binds this fractured psychological puzzle." -- Grade: B+A.V. Club "Mr. Soderbergh handles it brilliantly, serving notice once again that he is a crackerjack genre technician."New York Times "[I]t is a thrill ride for grown-ups, suspenseful, whip-smart and crammed with surprises."Empire 4 stars out of 5 -- "Soderbergh's cool self-lensing brings an aptly clinical sheen to his fiendishly ingenious tale..."Total Film24.91404

3 stars out of 5 -- "[I]t's Binoche who startles with a raw portrayal bristling with anger and a festering sense of injustice."Total Film "Binoche seems to blossom under Minghella's direction, and she's luminous in this role..."Movieline's Hollywood Life "Ray Winstone is sharp as razor blades playing the investigative detective. Vera Farmiga...provides funny and lively off-color commentary..."Box Office "There are moments of lovely, painful intimacy between [the characters]..."New York Times 4 stars out of 5 -- "A pensive, beautifully executed drama about the emotional barriers people put up as others struggle to break through."Ultimate DVD24.88517

"Writer/director Richard Shepard, who tackled assassins in THE MATADOR and war criminals in THE HUNTING PARTY, is clearly at home in the underbelly and has a great ear for filthy dialogue."Total Film21.87916

"Writer/director Richard Shepard, who tackled assassins in THE MATADOR and war criminals in THE HUNTING PARTY, is clearly at home in the underbelly and has a great ear for filthy dialogue."Total Film "DOM HEMINGWAY is often ghoulishly funny, with Law, who put on weight for the role and plays up his receding hairline, turning in a larger-than-life performance unlike any hes given before." -- Grade: BA.V. Club "[T]he most mesmerizing drama of British lowlifery since Sexy Beast." -- Grade: AEntertainment Weekly21.87916

"Writer/director Richard Shepard, who tackled assassins in THE MATADOR and war criminals in THE HUNTING PARTY, is clearly at home in the underbelly and has a great ear for filthy dialogue."Total Film "DOM HEMINGWAY is often ghoulishly funny, with Law, who put on weight for the role and plays up his receding hairline, turning in a larger-than-life performance unlike any hes given before." -- Grade: BA.V. Club "[T]he most mesmerizing drama of British lowlifery since Sexy Beast." -- Grade: AEntertainment Weekly21.87916

"The verbal intercourse that dominates that scene and every other in the film is vigorous, compulsive, sometimes painful and occasionally funny."New York Times "All the actors do fine work, but Owen's quixotic and brooding quality is particularly effective here."USA Today "[T]he haunting, hypnotic CLOSER vibrates with eroticism, bruising laughs and dynamite performances from four attractive actors doing decidedly unattractive things." Rolling Stone "The place, the costumes, the staging of sexual provocation and betrayal are refined studies in luxurious understatement." Entertainment Weekly "[Portman is] the film's most enigmatic character..." Film Comment "[T]his is an engrossing, anti-romantic movie about that bloody fist of an organ, the human heart." Uncut "They are all so very articulate, which is refreshing..."Chicago Sun-Times "[The performances] are strong and display a readiness to engage in the ugliness of the parts. Julia Roberts is refreshingly understated." Sight and Sound 3 stars out of 5 -- "A faithful screen adaptation of Patrick Marber's play....It's witty and well performed..."Ultimate DVD21.82143

"The verbal intercourse that dominates that scene and every other in the film is vigorous, compulsive, sometimes painful and occasionally funny."New York Times "All the actors do fine work, but Owen's quixotic and brooding quality is particularly effective here."USA Today "[T]he haunting, hypnotic CLOSER vibrates with eroticism, bruising laughs and dynamite performances from four attractive actors doing decidedly unattractive things." Rolling Stone "The place, the costumes, the staging of sexual provocation and betrayal are refined studies in luxurious understatement." Entertainment Weekly "[Portman is] the film's most enigmatic character..." Film Comment "[T]his is an engrossing, anti-romantic movie about that bloody fist of an organ, the human heart." Uncut "They are all so very articulate, which is refreshing..."Chicago Sun-Times "[The performances] are strong and display a readiness to engage in the ugliness of the parts. Julia Roberts is refreshingly understated." Sight and Sound 3 stars out of 5 -- "A faithful screen adaptation of Patrick Marber's play....It's witty and well performed..."Ultimate DVD21.82143

"The verbal intercourse that dominates that scene and every other in the film is vigorous, compulsive, sometimes painful and occasionally funny."New York Times "All the actors do fine work, but Owen's quixotic and brooding quality is particularly effective here."USA Today "[T]he haunting, hypnotic CLOSER vibrates with eroticism, bruising laughs and dynamite performances from four attractive actors doing decidedly unattractive things." Rolling Stone "The place, the costumes, the staging of sexual provocation and betrayal are refined studies in luxurious understatement." Entertainment Weekly "[Portman is] the film's most enigmatic character..." Film Comment "[T]his is an engrossing, anti-romantic movie about that bloody fist of an organ, the human heart." Uncut "They are all so very articulate, which is refreshing..."Chicago Sun-Times "[The performances] are strong and display a readiness to engage in the ugliness of the parts. Julia Roberts is refreshingly understated." Sight and Sound 3 stars out of 5 -- "A faithful screen adaptation of Patrick Marber's play....It's witty and well performed..."Ultimate DVD21.82143

"360 is about the the six degrees of separation that pull people across lines of class, ethnicity, and fate....360 has a circular structure that's deftly pleasing..." -- Grade: BEntertainment Weekly21.82143

"360 is about the the six degrees of separation that pull people across lines of class, ethnicity, and fate....360 has a circular structure that's deftly pleasing..." -- Grade: BEntertainment Weekly21.82143

"360 is about the the six degrees of separation that pull people across lines of class, ethnicity, and fate....360 has a circular structure that's deftly pleasing..." -- Grade: BEntertainment Weekly "[A]t certain points, one is reminded sharply of the vitality of Meirelles's CITY OF GOD, particularly when the ending takes an abrupt but plausible turn into thriller territory."Sight and Sound21.82143